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An Evening with Peter Behrens (Spring 2012)
Tuesday, March 6, 2012 at 7:30PM
The Donaghy Theatre
Irish Arts Center 553 W. 51st Street
New York,
NY
10019
Between 10th and 11th Avenues
Take the C or E train to 50th Street, N or R train to 49th Street, or 1 train to 50th Street
Behrens is a natural storyteller and his scope is vast."
--VANCOUVER SUN"...epic, a piece of rough beauty itself."
--PUBLISHER'S WEEKLYAn unforgettable sage of love, loss and exhilarating change spanning half a century in the lives of a restless family.The O'Briens is a tale that pours straight from the heart of a splendid, tragic, ambitious clan. Picking up a generation later from Behrens' award-winning The Law of Dreams--a harrowing tale of potato famine Ireland and immigration--we now meet Joe O'Brien, a fiercely compelling character who exchanges isolation and poverty in the Canadian wilds for a share in the dazzling possibilities and consuming sorrows of the twentieth century. When Joe meets Iseult Wilkins we begin the story of a marriage and a family moving through history--from the first flying machines, through two worlds wars, and the election of JFK--told with epic precision and wondrous imagination.Peter Behrens is the author of The Law of Dreams and Night Driving, a collection of short stories. His short stories and essays have appeared in many publications, including The Atlantic and Tin House. He has received a Wallace Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University, among other honors. This is a free event but reservations are encourage.An Evening with Peter Behrens is presented in association with Consulate General of Canada and Glucksman Ireland House--New York University.
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